Fatal attraction: the intuitive appeal of GMO opposition
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Public opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remains strong. By contrast, studies demonstrate again and again that GM crops make a valuable contribution to the development of a sustainable type of agriculture. The discrepancy between public opinion and the scientific evidence requires an explanation. We argue that intuitive expectations about the world render the human mind vulnerable to particular misrepresentations of GMOs. We explain how the involvement of particular intuitions accounts for the popularity, persistence, and typical features of GM opposition and tackle possible objections to our approach. To conclude, we discuss the implications for science education, science communication, and the environmental movement.
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Public opposition to GMOs remains strong despite scientific evidence that GM crops do not pose specific health or environmental risks and can benefit farmers. The authors argue that evolved intuitions—especially folk biology, teleological/intentional thinking, and disgust—make the human mind especially receptive to anti-GMO representations.
Key findings
- The paper proposes a cognitive explanation for GMO opposition: intuitive expectations about nature make people vulnerable to misrepresentations of GMOs, and anti-GMO campaigns successfully tap into these intuitions.
- Psychological essentialism leads people to interpret DNA as an organism’s essence; in a United States survey, more than half of respondents did not reject the idea that tomatoes modified with catfish DNA would taste like fish.
- Teleological and intentional intuitions contribute to views of genetic engineering as “unnatural,” “playing god,” or “Frankenfood,” while disgust can make GM food seem contaminating or impure.
- The authors argue that education can partly reduce the intuitive appeal of negative GMO representations, but it is “certainly not foolproof,” and communication should emphasize benefits such as Bt corn containing less mycotoxins, herbicide-resistant crops requiring less tilling, Bt crops enhancing insect biodiversity, and biotech crops helping reduce poverty in India.
Methods
- Conceptual/cognitive analysis rather than an empirical study: the authors use ideas from cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and cultural attraction to explain the popularity, persistence, and typical features of GMO opposition.
- The argument draws on cited literature and illustrative examples, including a US survey and experimental findings on disgust and essentialism.
- No primary data collection, sample, or statistical analysis is reported.
Limitations
- The authors state that their cognitive analysis does not render every public concern unfounded a priori; some apprehensions can be legitimate, such as herbicide resistance in weeds where farmers over-relied on glyphosate-tolerant crops.
- The authors state that education is not foolproof and that intuitive thinking remains a trap even for experts.
- Evident from the text: the paper is a review/opinion-style synthesis without systematic empirical testing of the proposed cognitive mechanisms, relying instead on examples and cited studies.
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Much of our thinking depends on intuitions, of which the working largely stays below the radar of conscious awareness.
“Although generally we feel as if we control willfully what we think and do, much of our thinking 38 depends on intuitions, of which the working largely stays below the radar of conscious 39 awareness [14].”
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When lay people are confronted with and have to evaluate information about GMOs and the risks involved, they will predominantly rely on their intuitive mind.
“Therefore, when lay people are 61 confronted with and have to evaluate information about GMOs and the risks involved, they will 62 predominantly rely on their intuitive mind.”
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People assumed that the fish's essence had been introduced into these tomatoes, including a fishy taste.
“Apparently, people assumed that the fish's essence 89 had been introduced into these tomatoes, including a fishy taste.”
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When confronted with abstract and complex situations, intuitions tend to break down.
“but, when confronted with abstract and complex situations, these 43 intuitions tend to break down [17].”
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Public opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remains strong.
“Public opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remains strong.”
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“Concerns about health, environmental and socio-economic hazards have resulted in a strong 12 public opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) [1-3].”
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GM crops make a valuable contribution to the development of a sustainable type of agriculture.
“studies demonstrate again and again that GM crops make a valuable contribution to the 2 development of a sustainable type of agriculture.”
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Lay people tend to prefer GMO representations that are most in line with their intuitive expectations, because these are easier to understand and remember.
“As a result, lay people tend to prefer GMO 63 representations that are most in line with their intuitive expectations, because these are easier to 64 understand and remember.”
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Psychological essentialism regularly interferes with a scientifically informed biological understanding.
“Nevertheless, in spite of the obvious adaptive rationality of this cognitive predisposition, 83 psychological essentialism regularly interferes with a scientifically informed biological 84 understanding [27].”
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Intuitions and emotions make the human mind highly susceptible to particular negative representations of GMOs.
“We argue that intuitive expectations 4 about the world render the human mind vulnerable to particular misrepresentations of 5 GMOs.”
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“We argue that intuitions 31 and emotions make the mind highly susceptible to particular negative representations of GMOs.”
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The involvement of particular intuitions accounts for the popularity, persistence and typical features of GM opposition.
“We explain how the involvement of particular intuitions accounts for the 6 popularity, persistence and typical features of GM opposition and tackle possible 7 objections to our approach.”
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“show how our approach explains the popularity, persistence and typical features of the GMO 68 hostility”
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Intuitions evolved in response to particular adaptive situations automatically shape expectations about the world or induce reflexive risk assessments.
“Among other things, these intuitions, which evolved in response to particular 40 adaptive situations, automatically shape expectations about the world or induce reflexive risk 41 assessments [15].”
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The emotion of disgust incites people to condemn not only the GM food itself, but also the producers and developers of GM products as immoral.
“Hence, the emotion incites people to condemn not only the GM food itself, but also the 139 producers and developers of GM products as immoral.”
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Genetic engineering is considered the opposite of 'natural'.
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Disgust also affects our moral judgment.
“Moreover, disgust also affects our moral judgment [38,40,42].”
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Teleological and intentional intuitions affect people's preferences for particular GMO representations and the perception of risks involved.
“Another aspect of the intuitive mind that affects people's preferences for particular GMO 101 representations and the perception of the risks involved are teleological and intentional 102 intuitions.”
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The notion that growing GM crops with herbicide tolerance will promote superweeds falls back to the same misconception that a weed can be characterized by a single gene.
“The notion 94 that growing GM crops with herbicide tolerance will promote so-called superweeds falls back to 95 the same misconception that a weed can be characterized by a single gene.”
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Once negative representations become culturally available, the human mind will be highly susceptible to them.
“However, once these 184 negative representations become culturally available, for instance, because of intense 185 campaigning by environmental groups or lack of any strong cultural counterforces, the human 186 mind will be highly susceptible to them.”
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Due to their aggregated relevance, these depictions will tend to outcompete the demonstrations of scientists and other experts that require an enhanced cognitive effort.
“Due to 164 their aggregated relevance, these depictions will tend to outcompete the demonstrations of 165 scientists and other experts that require an enhanced cognitive effort.”
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The anti-GMO campaign has been extremely successful, not only to the surprise of scientists, but also of the instigators themselves.
“As such, the anti GMO 166 campaign has been extremely successful, not only to the surprise of scientists, but also of the 167 instigators themselves [45].”
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The preferential adoption of negative GMO representations takes place reflexively, instantaneously, and largely under the radar of conscious awareness.
“The preferential adoption of negative GMO representations takes place reflexively, 169 instantaneously, and largely under the radar of conscious awareness.”
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The mix of essentialist, teleological and intentional biases continues to allure people into believing that a certain order exists in nature that should not be meddled with.
“This design illusion has effectively been 108 debunked by evolutionary theory, but the mix of essentialist, teleological and intentional biases 109 continues to allure a lot of people in believing that a certain order exists in nature that should not 110 be meddled with.”
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The human mind is not predetermined to think that GMOs are poisonous, disgusting or unnatural.
“As such, the human mind is not 183 predetermined to think that GMOs are poisonous, disgusting or unnatural.”
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Disgust evolved probably in response to adaptive problems related to pathogen and poison avoidance.
“Disgust evolved probably in response to adaptive 121 problems related to pathogen and poison avoidance [38][39][40].”
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Emphasis on the benefits of GMOs would effectively induce sympathy.
“Although GMOs are at a disadvantage because they are commonly associated 211 with unnaturalness and trigger disgust, emphasis on the benefits would effectively induce 212 sympathy [37,47].”
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InterpretationreasoningExisting accounts fail to explain why opposition occurs in non-Christian cultures, why people do not reject every technology that brings no immediate benefits, or why people prefer romantic views in the first place.
“Nonetheless, they fail to explain why opposition also occurs in non-Christian 26 cultures, why people do not reject every technology that brings no immediate benefits or why 27 people prefer romantic views in the first place.”
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PremisecitationOne constituent of folk biology is psychological essentialism, the belief that organisms hold an unobservable, immutable core determining their identity and development and behavior.
“One constituent of 74 this folk biology is psychological essentialism [25] that amounts to the belief that organisms hold 75 an unobservable, immutable core determining their identity and, thus, their development and 76 behavior.”
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PremisecitationPeople systematically prefer cisgenic over transgenic organisms, providing an indication of an essentialist bias.
“That people systematically 90 prefer cisgenic over transgenic organisms provides another indication of an essentialist bias [3].”
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PremisecitationResearch shows that cultivation of GM crops does not pose any specific health or environmental risks, but instead can bring benefits to local farmers.
“However, research shows that cultivation of GM crops does not pose any specific health 21 or environmental risks, but instead can bring benefits to local farmers [8-11].”
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InterpretationcitationAnti-GMO groups have successfully tapped into people's intuitions to promote their cause, making their campaign highly attractive to the human mind.
“Anti-GMO groups have successfully tapped into people's intuitions to 65 promote their cause, thus making their campaign highly attractive to the human mind [Box 1].”
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PremisecitationUnder ecologically relevant conditions, intuitions tend to generate rational responses.
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Interpretationnone givenOpponents of GMOs explicitly appeal to essentialist intuitions by distributing edited images of tomatoes with fish tails or by claiming that biotech companies insert scorpion DNA elements into corn to produce crispy corn flakes.
“In their campaigns, opponents of GMOs explicitly appeal to these essentialist intuitions by 92 distributing edited images of tomatoes with fish tails or by claiming that biotech companies 93 insert scorpion DNA elements into corn (Zea mays) to produce crispy corn flakes.”
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PremisecitationPsychological essentialism affects people's comprehension of GMOs, primarily because they interpret DNA as the essence of organisms.
“Notoriously, it impedes people's understanding of basic aspects of 85 evolutionary theory, but it also affects people's comprehension of GMOs, primarily because they 86 interpret DNA as the essence of organisms [28].”
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Interpretationnone givenThe intuitive mind is not well equipped to address intricate questions such as what biotechnology is, how it works, and whether it is dangerous.
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Interpretationnone givenEducation can, at least to a certain extent, abate the intuitive appeal of negative GMO representations.
“Education can, at least to a certain extent, abate the intuitive appeal of negative GMO 205 representations.”
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Interpretationnone givenIn the case of GM food, feelings of disgust possibly arise because of psychological essentialism by which people intuitively interpret gene modification as an unwarranted and contaminating intervention into the organism's essence, rendering the organism impure and no longer consumable.
“In the case of GM food, feelings of disgust possibly arise because of 130 psychological essentialism by which people intuitively interpret gene modification as an 131 unwarranted and contaminating intervention into the organism's essence, rendering the organism 132 impure and, therefore, no longer consumable.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe resulting negative affect is consciously registered and prompts people to justify their feelings.
“However, the resulting 170 negative affect is consciously registered and, consequently, prompts people to justify their 171 feelings.”
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Premisenone givenSome reports and studies have claimed that GMOs per se badly affect health, environment, and small farmers in developing countries; these studies turned out to be unsubstantiated.
“Some reports and studies have 377 claimed that GMOs per se badly affect health, environment, and small farmers in developing 378 countries.These studies, however, turned out to be unsubstantiated.”
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InterpretationreasoningA form of motivated reasoning emerges, in which arguments become highly prominent that are applicable equally to other technologies, but are suddenly ignored.
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InterpretationreasoningThese concerns are typically unrelated to the technology of genetic modification, but result from unsound agricultural practices and policy that also can cause problems in the case of 'conventional' crops.
“However, these 390 concerns are typically unrelated to the technology of genetic modification, but result from 391 unsound agricultural practices and policy that also can cause problems in the case of 392”
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Premisenone givenThe human mind comprises evolved intuitions that shape and constrain cultural preferences.
“The human mind comprises evolved intuitions that shape and constrain cultural preferences.”
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Interpretationnone givenNegative GMO representations may exert a fatal attraction by leading people to choose the wrong adversaries and to urge policy makers to take counter-effective measures.
“By leading people to choose the wrong adversaries and to urge policy makers to take counter-222 effective measures, negative GMO representations may indeed exert a fatal attraction.”
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Interpretationnone givenGMOs can be a formidable tool in the realization of a sustainable form of agriculture.
“GMOs can be a formidable tool in the realization of a sustainable form of agriculture.”
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PremisecitationThese intuitions tend to translate into religious beliefs, but they can also contribute to a quasi-religious view on nature.
“These intuitions tend to translate in religious beliefs, but they can also contribute to a 103 quasi-religious view on nature [30,31].”
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PremisecitationIn the cognitive science of religion, religion is commonly assumed to be a byproduct generated by peculiarities of our mental make-up that includes essentialist thinking and receptivity to the feeling that the world has been designed for a particular purpose.
“In the cognitive science of religion, religion is 105 commonly assumed to be a byproduct, generated by the peculiarities of our mental make-up that 106 includes essentialist thinking, but that is also highly receptive to the feeling that the world has 107 been designed for a particular purpose [32][33][34][35].”
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InterpretationreasoningThe effect of disgust will probably be enhanced when the introduced DNA comes from a different species, or a species that is considered dirty.
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InterpretationreasoningThe negative representations produced by anti-GMO activists reflect essentialist and intentional understandings of nature and suggest contamination, hence becoming highly salient to the corresponding intuitions.
“The negative representations produced by anti-GMO 162 activists happen to reflect essentialist and intentional understandings of nature and suggest 163 contamination, hence, becoming highly salient to the corresponding intuitions (Figure 1).”
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Lay people are often unable or simply not interested in investing large amounts of time and energy to acquire a profound grasp of complex technologies.
“Lay 59 people are often unable or are simply not interested in investing large amounts of time and 60 energy to acquire a profound grasp of complex technologies.”
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Typical weed characteristics are the result of the interplay of numerous genes.
“On the contrary, 96 typical weed characteristics, such as withstanding harsh environments, competing for light, water 97 and minerals and fast reproduction are the result of the interplay of numerous genes.”
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Large parts of Europe, where resistance against GM food is strong, are highly secular.
“Indeed, large parts of Europe, where the resistance 104 against GM food is strong, are highly secular.”
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Intuitions are universally shared.
“As intuitions are universally shared, appropriate 158 representations stand a greater chance of becoming widely distributed and culturally stable.”
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The opposition to GMOs is not everywhere as strong as it is in Europe, although it is more common than people tend to think.
“Indeed, the opposition to GMOs is not everywhere as strong as it is in 190 Europe, although it is more common than people tend to think.”
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- Authors
- Blancke, S., Van Breusegem, F., De Jaeger, G., Braeckman, J., & Van Montagu, M.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Blancke, Stefaan
- Venue
- Trends in Plant Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-07
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 414-418
- ISSN
- 1360-1385 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2127228400
- Cited by
- 206
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Trends in Plant Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Keywords
- genetically modified organisms, intuitive thinking, cognitive biases, science communication, science education, environmental movement, sustainable agriculture, public perception of science
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Public Opinion, Plants, Genetically Modified
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Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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